How to Use disinclined in a Sentence

disinclined

adjective

• Those who have left this life behind seem disinclined to turn back.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2017
• Sounds to me like your friend can’t, won’t, or is disinclined to forgive you.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
• Ritter declined to call the bill for a vote last year and is disinclined to do so now.
  — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2025
• Why are modern fathers so quick to anger, and so disinclined to talk about it?
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 June 2022
• But most teams are disinclined to act this early in the season.
  — Will Sammon, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
• Some people are disinclined to see past their own risk horizons.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 28 Dec. 2020
• Mary, Miller’s first girlfriend and his wife of eleven years, seems to have been disinclined to forgive.
  — Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
• These days, even the nosiest monitors are disinclined to travel.
  — The Economist, 16 May 2020
• But the breast patients came anyway, referred by male surgeons disinclined to take them on.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 3 July 2023
• Because big investments are hard to reverse, firms are disinclined to press ahead with them.
  — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
• The judge, who made extremely short work of the case, appeared disinclined to indulge the suit.
  — Norman Eisen, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
• For its part, Intel may have felt disinclined to cross any more swords with the government.
  — Polly Sprenger, WIRED, 25 Jan. 1999
• Jayne, whose politics on this point were the same as mine, was disinclined to man the barricades, so to speak.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
• Police are disinclined to notice as rocks are hurled and windows shatter.
  — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• The justices at the hearing seemed disinclined to buy Liu’s counsel’s claims, too.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2020
• For those of us who are disinclined to brave the wind and cold, Brookfield isn’t the only place to score a free visit.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
• But that needn’t be church (in my irrelevant opinion) for one disinclined and on the cusp of adulthood.
  — Philip Galanes, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• Anecdotes suggest that many hunters may have been disinclined to buck-hunt only after the statewide gun season.
  — Brian Lovett, Outdoor Life, 12 July 2019
• Installing one means pulling an aircraft out of rotation, which airlines are disinclined to go.
  — Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2016
• Really most cards are hard to find well centered because collectors are disinclined to sell them.
  — Michael Salfino, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
• But with that uncertainty hanging over their heads, prospects are disinclined to give a commitment.
  — Chris Bumbaca, ajc, 24 Nov. 2017
• Explaining will come across as backpedaling and excuse-making and spin to someone disinclined to believe you.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2019
• For now, the Israelis are focused on the immediate threat and are disinclined to widen the conflict.
  — Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2023
• For those disinclined to cold weather, the asymmetric windows, along with warm wood paneling, make for a rather scenic (and cozy) setup as well.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2023
• White Sox management has long been thought of as calcified in its strategies, disinclined to make changes, and not evolving with the rest of the sport.
  — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
• Teams have been disinclined to do that, which has made DAZN reluctant to move forward.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
• And some Republicans indeed seem disinclined to fight to protect the low effective tax rates of those megafirms.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• At the town hall, Iger put his foot down on the matter, saying Disney is disinclined to acquiesce to this request.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 16 May 2017
• TVs are a challenge for Amazon, as consumers might be disinclined to buy a TV sight unseen.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
• Espionage and intelligence are so conducive to mistrust that the people who make the best use of them tend to be the most equable and disinclined to suspicion.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019